| bluzrooster 2006-02-04, 12:22 pm |
| Wayne,
I looked at link provided but did not see any gradients at all...
At any rate, I thought I'd give you my two cents, as I work for a screenprinter and use Illustratorfrequently...
Depending on if you are printing CMYK four color process or spotcolor printing (used more frequently)...
there is a gradient fill tool on the toolbar I use... and I can drag colors from my swatch area to the small box on either end of the gradient tool box... to choose the gradient colors I am using...
if you select a single swatch and double click, an option box opens and one of the options is to choose spot color or process, if you need spot color gradient to print (for instance black gradient to print on same layer as other black objects) you would want to make sure all black items are same setting or you will have a separation layer for process black and black spot too... also when you set a swatch color to "spot", a dot appears on the swatch, other wise it is a CMYK or RGB but not spot!
It was also helpful to us to print from EPS foramt rather than AI, for some reason unknown to me, the AI files gradients would not output right...
better luck with EPS's!
if you output the film or vellum yourself, for the separations, we generally use a line screen of 45 DPI for the halftone part and rotate to 15 degrees to reduce the moire effect from our screen printing screens mesh... this has been all trial and error on my part, a most of my learning has been :)
Denise
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Originally posted by d2@comcast.net
I reword artwork and logo's for a screen printer. He has a few design
ideas that will require halftone printing of a gradient blend from
black to white. Does anyone know how to do this? I have tried using the
Effect/Pixelate feature in Illustrator 10. Here are the results.
See the picture at the bottom of the link.
http://home.comcast.net/~cyberTNT/
The far left is the original blend. The others, i have noted. Can
someone please send me a link to a step by step tutorial or something.
Thanks,Wayne
D2@comcast.net
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